Posted on 12/26/2004 8:07:42 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Recovering from Christmas, I look for newspapers to give me new information, but no such luck. Venezuelan newspapers at this time of the year get thinner and original content is minimal, they are basically all empty, except for sports. Most good opinion writers are away on vacation. All of the papers are full of stories about the best in 2004. News in 2004. Month by month in 2004. My Sunday ritual of reading the newspapers is reduced to a few minutes of learning about Chavez returning from his China trip early and some details about the impact of the Cojedes decrees in that state and nationwide.
Interesting that economic reporter Victor Salmeron is covering the issue of land intervention. He usually is involved with more technical economic issues and is by far the best economic reporter in Venezuela. His article paints a picture of lands invaded by people looking for homes, meat production down and myths dominating Venezuela’s rural areas. The British are painted as the bad guys, raising cattle to send abroad for the English to eat (even the queen is mentioned as eating their meat!); while the reality is the cows are sold young to other ranches due to the insecurity. Chavez is definitely the hero, with the Governor disliked thoroughly. Meanwhile, the guy who runs the cattle farm says most invaders are from other states and whenever they have meetings they arrive in the latest car models.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.salon.com ...
I, for one, am tired to helping. Let the Vens pick up a gun and do it themselves.
Well and good, but you are imagining that this thug, who controls 15% of our oil and sitting on a mountain of gold from our oil billions - and is already aiding our very worst enemies - in Iran, in Zimbabwe, in alqaida, in Cuba - somehow won't do anything to affect us.
Wrong.
If I can get an 1880s Argentine Mauser, so can anyone else.
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